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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112276 | Voice recognition apparatus A voice recognition apparatus 10 carries out voice recognition of an inputted voice with reference to a voice recognition dictionary, and outputs a voice recognition result. In this voice recognition apparatus, a plurality of voice recognition dictionaries | 02/07/2012 |
| 8069042 | Using child directed speech to bootstrap a model based speech segmentation and recognition system A method and system for obtaining a pool of speech syllable models. The model pool is generated by first detecting a training segment using unsupervised speech segmentation or speech unit spotting. If the model pool is empty, a first speech syllable model is trained... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060412 | System and method for obtaining merchandise information In a method of obtaining merchandise information from a store system using speech processing technology to determine a spoken query entry, an information inquiry from a customer regarding a particular product is received via a communication network. The location of ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050918 | Quality evaluation tool for dynamic voice portals A method and system for evaluating the quality of voice input recognition by a voice portal is provided. An analysis interface extracts a set of current grammars from the voice portal. A test pattern generator generates a test input for each current grammar. The tes... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8010357 | Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding Combined active and semi-supervised learning to reduce an amount of manual labeling when training a spoken language understanding model classifier. The classifier may be trained with human-labeled utterance data. Ones of a group of unselected utterance data may be s... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996219 | Apparatus and method for model adaptation for spoken language understanding An apparatus and a method are provided for building a spoken language understanding model. Labeled data may be obtained for a target application. A new classification model may be formed for use with the target application by using the labeled data for adaptation of... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996220 | System and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a communications device that is used in a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7899826 | Semantic reconstruction Determining a semantic relationship is disclosed. Source content is received. Cluster analysis is performed at least in part by using at least a portion of the source content. At least a portion of a result of the cluster analysis is used to determine the semantic r... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885812 | Joint training of feature extraction and acoustic model parameters for speech recognition Parameters for a feature extractor and acoustic model of a speech recognition module are trained. An objective function is utilized to determine values for the feature extractor parameters and the acoustic model parameters. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881932 | VoiceXML language extension for natively supporting voice enrolled grammars The present invention extends the VoiceXML language model to natively support voice enrolled grammars. Specifically, three VoiceXML tags can be added to the language model to add, modify, and delete acoustically provided phrases to voice enrolled grammars. Once crea... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7844457 | Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent Methods are disclosed for automatic accent labeling without manually labeled data. The methods are designed to exploit accent distribution between function and content words. ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7756708 | Automatic language model update A method for generating a speech recognition model includes accessing a baseline speech recognition model, obtaining information related to recent language usage from search queries, and modifying the speech recognition model to revise probabilities of a portion of ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7734466 | Reduced complexity recursive least square lattice structure adaptive filter by means of limited recursion of the backward and forward error prediction squares A method for reducing a computational complexity of an m-stage adaptive filter is provided by updating recursively forward and backward error prediction square terms for a first portion of a length of the adaptive filter, and keeping the updated forward and backward... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720681 | Digital voice profiles Generally described, the present invention is directed toward generating, maintaining, updating, and applying digital voice profiles. Voice profiles may be generated for individuals. The voice profiles include information that is unique to each individual and which ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7660715 | Transparent monitoring and intervention to improve automatic adaptation of speech models A system and method to improve the automatic adaptation of one or more speech models in automatic speech recognition systems. After a dialog begins, for example, the dialog asks the customer to provide spoken input and it is recorded. If the speech recognizer determ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7634406 | System and method for identifying semantic intent from acoustic information In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, unanticipated semantic intents are discovered in audio data in an unsupervised manner. For instance, the audio acoustics are clustered based on semantic intent and representative acoustics are chosen for ea... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7590536 | Voice language model adjustment based on user affinity Methods, systems and computer readable medium for improving the accuracy of voice processing are provided. Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods, systems and articles of manufacture for adjusting a language model within a voice recognition s... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7580837 | System and method for targeted tuning module of a speech recognition system A system and method are disclosed for targeted tuning of a speech recognition system. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include deploying a speech recognition module to apply an appropriate interpretation to a plurality of utterance type... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580836 | Speaker adaptation using weighted feedback In some embodiments, the invention includes calculating estimated weights for identified errors in recognition of utterances. Sections of the utterances are marked as being misrecognized and the corresponding estimated weights are associated with these sections of t... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574359 | Speaker selection training via a-posteriori Gaussian mixture model analysis, transformation, and combination of hidden Markov models The present invention is directed to a 3-stage adaptation framework based on speaker selection training. First a subset of cohort speakers is selected for a test speaker. Then cohort models are transformed to be closer to the test speaker. Finally the adapted model ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7533018 | Tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system A tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system has a speech recognition dictionary (360) with at least one word (371). That word (371) has at least two transcriptions (373), each transcription (373) having a probability fa... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529668 | System and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition A system and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition includes a database analyzer that initially identifies first vocabulary words that are present in a training database and second vocabulary words that are not present in the training da... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7516071 | Method of modeling single-enrollment classes in verification and identification tasks In automatic pattern recognition, in the context of patterns being observed either in the same or a new environment, e.g. a new acoustic channel, as compared to the one seen during the previous enrollment, an improvement wherein degradation of the system recognition... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7509257 | Method and apparatus for adapting reference templates A method and apparatus for adapting reference templates is provided. The method includes adapting one or more reference templates using a stored test utterance by replacing data within at the reference templates with a weighted interpolation of that data and corresp... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505905 | In-the-field adaptation of a large vocabulary automatic speech recognizer (ASR) A technique for improving the recognition accuracy of a speech recognizer includes deploying the speech recognizer, wherein live input data is received by the recognizer as an input for a given speaker independent adaptation algorithm associated with the speech reco... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7457750 | Systems and methods for dynamic re-configurable speech recognition Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input modes to keyboard text e... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451085 | System and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a communications device that is used in a ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440895 | System and method for tuning and testing in a speech recognition system Systems and methods for improving the performance of a speech recognition system. In some embodiments a tuner module and/or a tester module are configured to cooperate with a speech recognition system. The tester and tuner modules can be configured to cooperate with... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437289 | Methods and apparatus for the systematic adaptation of classification systems from sparse adaptation data Methods and apparatus for the rapid adaptation of classification systems using small amounts of adaptation data. Improvements in classification accuracy are attainable when conditions similar to those that present in adaptation are observed. The attendant methods an... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428491 | Method and system for obtaining personal aliases through voice recognition Methods and systems for recognizing a spoken alias are disclosed. The present invention includes generating a plurality of alias variations based on a discoverable name and creating a phonetic representation for each of the alias variations. The present invention al... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415409 | Method to train the language model of a speech recognition system to convert and index voicemails on a search engine A method and a related system to index voicemail documents by training a language model for a speaker or group of speakers by using existing emails and contact information on available repositories. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403896 | Speech recognition system and program thereof Speech recognition is performed by matching between a characteristic quantity of an inputted speech and a composite HMM obtained by synthesizing a speech HMM (hidden Markov model) and a noise HMM for each speech frame of the inputted speech by use of the composite H... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7373294 | Intonation transformation for speech therapy and the like The intonation of speech is modified by an appropriate combination of resampling and time-domain harmonic scaling. Resampling increases (upsampling) or decreases (downsampling) the number of data points in a signal. Harmonic scaling adds or removes pitch cycles to o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366669 | Acoustic model creation method as well as acoustic model creation apparatus and speech recognition apparatus To provide an acoustic model which can absorb the fluctuation of a phonemic environment in an interval longer than a syllable, with the number of parameters of the acoustic model suppressed to be small, a phoneme-connected syllable HMM/syllable-connected HMM set is ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363223 | Policy analysis framework for conversational biometrics The present invention describes a framework for the analytical and visual analysis and tuning of complex speaker verification systems guided by a policy finite state machine. The Receiver Operating Curve associated with the acoustic speaker recognition task is trans... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362892 | Self-optimizing classifier A method and computer program product are disclosed for determining an optimal classifier model for a pattern recognition system and updating the determined model to recognize new output classes. An initial plurality of classifier models are selected from a set of g... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359857 | Method and system of correcting spectral deformations in the voice, introduced by a communication network A technique for correcting the voice spectral deformations introduced by a communication network. Prior to the operation of equalization of the voice signal of a speaker, the constitution of classes of speakers is communicated, with one voice reference per class. Th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359393 | Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol convergence using update groups A method and apparatus for establishing update groups of peers having matching outbound policies are disclosed. When a change in the outbound policy of a peer is identified, the update group membership of the peer is resolved. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353172 | System and method for cantonese speech recognition using an optimized phone set The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Cantonese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented acc... | 04/01/2008 |
